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18 years ago, a newcomer actor became popular overnight with the role of "Wang Xiaomeng" in "Country Love".
She is Wang Yabin, and the influence of this role even exceeds that of the "F4" heavenly group in the play.
However, when the audience saw in "Country Love 3" that "Wang Xiaomeng" had changed to a new person, everyone knew the choice she made that year.
When Wang Yabin's acting career was in full swing, she unexpectedly refused Zhao Benshan's invitation and chose to quit the entertainment industry.
After becoming famous overnight and returning to seclusion, what is her bitterness? After achieving fame, what kind of new life did she lead?
Wang Yabin before becoming famous
Wang Yabin has had a strong interest in dancing since he was a child, and the reason why he embarked on this road was purely accidental.
When she was a child, Wang Yabin was weak and always sick, in order to improve her physique, her parents sent her to dance classes to study, at first just hoping to enhance her physique through exercise, but did not expect that dancing became her specialty.
Formally learning classical dance at the age of 6, Wang Yabin showed amazing talent, movement standards and flexibility far exceeded her peers, seeing Wang Yabin's enthusiasm for dancing, her parents made up their minds to send her to the Beijing Dance Academy Affiliated Middle School for further study.
Leaving her family at a young age to study in the north alone, Wang Yabin was initially restrained, but once she stood on the stage, she could calmly release the light of talent, completely missing her usual shyness and restraint.
Wang Yabin's professional teachers were optimistic about her talent and encouraged her to apply for the Beijing Dance Academy.
At the age of 15, she was admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy with excellent grades, and Wang Yabin became the little sister in the class, and her peers were still learning the basics, and she was already a well-trained lead dancer.
In 2003, 19-year-old Wang Yabin became famous by performing lead dance on CCTV Spring Evening.
As the youngest lead dancer, she was not afraid of stage pressure and calmly completed the performance, and after the show was broadcast, countless audiences were impressed by Wang Yabin's performance and praised this little girl for being cool.
After graduating from university, Wang Yabin was hired to teach at his alma mater, Beijing Dance Academy, becoming the youngest dance instructor, and students liked this gentle and patient little teacher.
At this time, Zhang Yimou invited her to serve as a dance director for the movie "Ambush on Ten Sides", which Wang Yabin gladly accepted, she carefully studied the script and designed dance movements for the actors.
When guiding actor Zhang Ziyi to complete multiple dance scenes, Wang Yabin was considerate, and Zhang Ziyi also had great respect for her as a junior sister, and she also acted as a stand-in to complete the most difficult part of the water sleeve dance.
After the release of the movie, Wang Yabin retired and did not take on more work in the entertainment industry, she only wanted to concentrate on dance creation, and refused the invitation of many directors.
Even if the conditions are good, Wang Yabin firmly chooses to return to the stage, hoping to become a top dancer in China through hard work.
Until a few years later, a well-known actor took the initiative to find Wang Yabin and asked her to direct a dance role, this time Wang Yabin finally nodded and agreed, officially entered the entertainment industry, and in the following days, she attracted much attention at both ends of dance and performance.
Know Zhao Benshan and refuse Zhao Benshan
In 2005, the "king of sketches" Zhao Benshan was preparing for the rural comedy TV series "Country Love", and needed to cast a simple and generous rural girl "Wang Xiaomeng".
Wang Yabin, a dancer whom Zhao Benshan met on the Spring Festival Gala, was very suitable for this role, so he took the initiative to contact Wang Yabin, hoping that she would audition.
Wang Yabin was born in the city, studied dance since childhood, and has a simple and down-to-earth personality.
She gladly accepted Zhao Benshan's invitation, but she was worried that her lack of understanding of rural life would not be able to accurately interpret this role, in order to create a good "Wang Xiaomeng", Wang Yabin deliberately went to live in the countryside for a period of time and personally experienced the life of rural people.
She lived in villagers' homes, worked with them, felt the hardships of farm work, and visited the villages, listening to their stories and learning about their customs.
Through this period of life, Wang Yabin has a new understanding of the countryside, and can better understand and enter the role of Wang Xiaomeng.
During the filming of the crew, Wang Yabin worked very hard, often the most diligent of all the actors, and when the others rested, she was still delving into the script and characters.
In terms of acting, Wang Yabin is a complete newcomer, but she continues to learn, constantly seeks senior actors, and is diligent in observing people in life.
Sometimes she would suddenly make small movements off-camera and then observe how that small movement felt in order to better grasp the character.
In 2006, the first part of "Country Love" received high ratings after it was broadcast, and the role of Wang Xiaomeng was also loved by the audience, and Wang Yabin became famous in one fell swoop.
Then she participated in the filming of the second part of the play, and when the second part was filmed, Wang Yabin's performance was already in place, and she was completely a seasoned actor.
But her heart is shaking - is she really suitable to be an actor? Is this the life she wants?
Just when the outside world thought that Wang Yabin would continue to develop his career as an actor, the actor of Wang Xiaomeng in "Country Love 3" was replaced by another person.
It turned out that during the filming of the second film, Wang Yabin began to reflect on whether she really wanted to be an actor, and after careful consideration, she found that her favorite thing was always dance.
Although "Country Love" gave her great success, it was not the life she dreamed of.
Zhao Benshan tried to keep her, hoping that she could continue to play Wang Xiaomeng, but she firmly refused.
Wang Yabin chose to leave the more lucrative television industry and embarked on the arduous road of pursuing his dance dream.
She knew that returning to the dance path would encounter various difficulties and might never achieve her achievements in the television industry again, but she still resolutely chose the career she loved.
Love that makes her never fade
Wang Yabin, known as the "first beauty in the countryside" by fans, is still persistently chasing the dance dream in her heart.
In 2009, after graduating, the 25-year-old came to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia alone and opened a dance studio with a group of like-minded friends.
At first, relying on the popularity of the entertainment industry, their works gained a certain amount of attention, but when this aura gradually faded, they embarked on a difficult creative road.
She always had too many ideas that had never been tried before, and wanted to perfectly combine Chinese and Western dance cultures, but unfortunately, the audience at that time could not fully understand her creations.
This led to the close closure of her studio several times, but in the end, she was desperate to support herself out of her own pocket, participating in TV dance shows during the day and continuing to rehearse her work at night in order to survive.
In this way, their work stumbled from the first season to the seventh season, and finally succeeded in 2016 and was highly recognized inside and outside the industry.
This time, she invited a number of theater masters to guide her, integrating Chinese and Western elements, and presenting the country's culture to the world in a new way.
She began to go abroad and became the first Chinese choreographer in the history of a British ballet theatre. Her unique understanding of dance has amazed foreign dancers.
In the end, her choreographed ballet helped the theater win the Olivier Award, the highest honor in the dance industry, making her the first Chinese to receive this honor.
After returning to China, the 39-year-old stood on the CCTV stage again, and the carefully prepared work "Weishan Lake" once again bloomed in front of the Chinese people.
Now, the new work "Journey to the West" brought by her is in its 14th season, and it is still using dance to interpret the classics and make Chinese culture blossom everywhere.
How many people have questioned her, thinking that she should continue to act, and it will be smoother and easier to go down in the entertainment industry.
But Wang Yabin never regrets choosing the road of dance, because this is her dream, it is her love in this life, even if the road is difficult, she is persevering step by step and writing her youth with dance.
Now she has received countless honors and become a star in the dance industry, but in the applause and praise of the audience, she still maintains her love and persistence for dance, because with this touch, this road will never fade.
epilogue
Wang Yabin's story is full of twists, and her efforts to achieve her dream are admirable.
However, success did not come easily, she also experienced confusion and struggles on the way to chase her dreams, and we don't know what happened to her in the middle years, perhaps it was her most embarrassing past.
But in the end, she overcame her inner distress and started again.
This makes us wonder: what is the hidden hardship behind success? Is there anything else we don't know about Wang Yabin's story?
Each story deserves to be understood with a more tolerant and cautious mindset. May more confused people find strength in Wang Yabin's story.